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I know some people will laugh at this, but given that both of these are available for comparable prices, with one previously being the king quadro, is there any reason why I should select the quadro 6000 over the gtx1060 in terms of gpgpu and scientific/CAD?

I believe that the GTX 1060 will outperform the old Quadro 6000, despite the fact that it is a consumer graphic card rather than a professional card in scientific/CAD  applications. But I'm wondering if 1060 has features like double precision. I'm guessing the Quadro 6000 has 

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more memory over the 1060?

If you want "fast" double precision (Float Point 64-bit or FP64) but not low- nor mid-end and maybe not high-end, you can buy any top-end of each generation NV cards list - unfortunately, fast FP64 needs super expensive:
- TITAN series: GeForce GTX TITAN (Kepler in 2013), TITAN V (Volta in 2018) but not "GeForce GTX TITAN X" nor "TITAN RTX" for FP64 is 32x slower than FP32
- Various few Quadro series and almost all Tesla* series but these are more (much) expensive than TITAN series.

* - ATTENTION: Tesla series do never have any display port.

Quadro 6000 has 6GB of ECC GDDR5, which is designed for stability and large datasets, beneficial in CAD/scientific work. GTX 1060 has 6GB (non-ECC), better for gaming but less precise.

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